I guess it's about time that I post...
So, I've been at Rhodes since last Wednesday. I moved in a day early bcse of a scholarship and we have to do an extra orientation. I was depressed the first few days and still sort of am, but I'm adjusting.
It's weird here. Everyone is rich, they drink, they party everynight. Seriously- I have not found that many people like me yet. There have been parties every night and I have heard about none of them except for the one today- I really must be uncool, lol. And the sad thing is- I'm totally fine with that. I like just hanging out with people in a room and talking and watching movies and arguing about books or philosophy and stuff. It seems like almost every single person I've met (except for a few)drinks all the time and goes to parties.
Last night, ones of our suitemates was in the bathroom and apparently she had gotten super drunk at one of the parties and had almost made out with a guy. She said she had barely eaten that day and had had like 5 beers. Oh boy- she is literally like 4'11" and 90 pounds. She said she felt terrible and was crying and was embarressed that she had to tell the guy she had to goto the bathroom so she didn't do stuff with him. And my roommate, Kristen is in that crowd and was telling her that she'd be fine and that she should just drink water and goto sleep.
And then the girl proceeded to throw up a lot (and my room is right next to our bathroom) so I heard it.
It's funny though because one of my roommates is Chinese and she's quiet just like me and sort of stays in her room at night and sleeps at a regular time. And we were talking about parties, and I said something like everyone drinks here!! but that I didn't. And she was like- "You're white, but you don't drink?!"
My other roommate is also quiet most of the time and hasn't gone to a party. We goto lunch together normally.
Everyone is rather rich too. One of the guys I was talking to today said that he brought a jaguar and was too afraid to leave it out on the street. One of the girls near me was talking about how she missed her HORSE and missed riding it and wanted to start an Equestrian club here. Maybe I'm just really poor, but I could never even dream of owning a horse.
I might rush. But our cheap sororities costs like 750 dollars a year, so I definitely cannot join a sorority. Plus, most of what they do is host parties, and that's not particularly my scene.
I'm uncool and sort of a hermit but I do talk to people all the time. I think a lot of the people in our group are sort of like that? That we don't like big parties or insane excessive drinking.
I can't wait until classes start (Even though I only have 3 classes right now and I need 4) because I've missed learning and I want some free time. Our orientation schedule is ridiculous and too busy. I can't wait to start doing homework again, lol. Calculus is going to suck though... but Bio and my humanities class should be good.
I saw Kyla for the FIRST TIME today, after this many days of orientation activities and never seeing her. We only have 486 ppl in my class but I still could not find. I talked to her for quite a while when we were signing the honor code.
My updates probably won't be that exciting, so don't hold your breath.
I'm going to start volunteering soon though (my scholarship requires 10 hrs a wk) and I'm trying to volunteer at the nutrition center in the Memphis Zoo, at the Children's museum of Memphis where I can play with little kids, and at the Hope and Healing Center where I can lead a lot of children's activities and hopefully teach them about nutrition and health or another program where we let the kids tell us stories and simply talk to them. I did Meals-On-Wheels- it's definitely not that exciting...
All the professors I've met are nice and pretty much everyone I've met has been nice. Of course all the asians and blacks hang out together unfortunately. But this is a predominantly rich white kid school, so, I guess it makes sense.
It's weird here. Everyone is rich, they drink, they party everynight. Seriously- I have not found that many people like me yet. There have been parties every night and I have heard about none of them except for the one today- I really must be uncool, lol. And the sad thing is- I'm totally fine with that. I like just hanging out with people in a room and talking and watching movies and arguing about books or philosophy and stuff. It seems like almost every single person I've met (except for a few)drinks all the time and goes to parties.
Last night, ones of our suitemates was in the bathroom and apparently she had gotten super drunk at one of the parties and had almost made out with a guy. She said she had barely eaten that day and had had like 5 beers. Oh boy- she is literally like 4'11" and 90 pounds. She said she felt terrible and was crying and was embarressed that she had to tell the guy she had to goto the bathroom so she didn't do stuff with him. And my roommate, Kristen is in that crowd and was telling her that she'd be fine and that she should just drink water and goto sleep.
And then the girl proceeded to throw up a lot (and my room is right next to our bathroom) so I heard it.
It's funny though because one of my roommates is Chinese and she's quiet just like me and sort of stays in her room at night and sleeps at a regular time. And we were talking about parties, and I said something like everyone drinks here!! but that I didn't. And she was like- "You're white, but you don't drink?!"
My other roommate is also quiet most of the time and hasn't gone to a party. We goto lunch together normally.
Everyone is rather rich too. One of the guys I was talking to today said that he brought a jaguar and was too afraid to leave it out on the street. One of the girls near me was talking about how she missed her HORSE and missed riding it and wanted to start an Equestrian club here. Maybe I'm just really poor, but I could never even dream of owning a horse.
I might rush. But our cheap sororities costs like 750 dollars a year, so I definitely cannot join a sorority. Plus, most of what they do is host parties, and that's not particularly my scene.
I'm uncool and sort of a hermit but I do talk to people all the time. I think a lot of the people in our group are sort of like that? That we don't like big parties or insane excessive drinking.
I can't wait until classes start (Even though I only have 3 classes right now and I need 4) because I've missed learning and I want some free time. Our orientation schedule is ridiculous and too busy. I can't wait to start doing homework again, lol. Calculus is going to suck though... but Bio and my humanities class should be good.
I saw Kyla for the FIRST TIME today, after this many days of orientation activities and never seeing her. We only have 486 ppl in my class but I still could not find. I talked to her for quite a while when we were signing the honor code.
My updates probably won't be that exciting, so don't hold your breath.
I'm going to start volunteering soon though (my scholarship requires 10 hrs a wk) and I'm trying to volunteer at the nutrition center in the Memphis Zoo, at the Children's museum of Memphis where I can play with little kids, and at the Hope and Healing Center where I can lead a lot of children's activities and hopefully teach them about nutrition and health or another program where we let the kids tell us stories and simply talk to them. I did Meals-On-Wheels- it's definitely not that exciting...
All the professors I've met are nice and pretty much everyone I've met has been nice. Of course all the asians and blacks hang out together unfortunately. But this is a predominantly rich white kid school, so, I guess it makes sense.